Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-01-22
GENERAL NEWS.


An agent for European purchasers paid
into Che treasury of Texas $147 ,OO for lsnos
In Dickens aid Cara counties, IN the ran
handle. The money goes TO the permanent
school fund.
The water supply of Evanston, Illinois,
was cut of. by depression OF eighteen
lnchee in lake Michigan, leaving the smali
SQctonlpipe in the air.
A machine which is likely to revolution
fze the method of making nails has been
perfected by Carver, Trout d Leonard, O,
a large factory either at Chicago or INDIA
napolis.
DR.. William Perry, the oldest graduate OF
Harvard college, and the last survivor or
Rulton's steamboat ride down the hudson
river, expired at Exeter, New Hampshire, at
the age of SO.
The executive committee Of the miners
and laborers of subdivision No. OF dis
&rict assembly No. 135, Knights of Labor,
santhracite coal fields, held a session In
Haxieton, Pa, and resolved to declare q
general strike of ali the employees engaged
IN the mining of coal in those places affect
ed by the strike of the New jersey coal
handlers, provided the strikers approve OF
this as being the most effective manner OF
rendering them assistance. A telegram an
nouncing the action of the committee was
sent to the strikers. Master Workman +.
e Brennan stated after the meeting that If
the action of the committee is approved by
The strikers, $1,000 of the 100000 mine en-
ployes of the anthracite coal fields would
stop work.
The Balder glue company, of Cincinnati
>has asked for the appointment of receiver
TO wind up its business on account OF 1n-
soivency. Preferences have been given tC
amounting to $4,000. Assets about $4,000.
Frederick W. Stanton, of Washington, d.
q, has been disbarred from practicing as an
attorney before the interior department or
any of its bureaus.
A noted burglar and murderer, named
Danmanway, formerly member of Jesse
james gang, died in the Rhode Island pen
Itentiary at the age of Sc. He is said to
have killed twelve men.
New York is threatened with famine in
fuel, on account of strike of coai-heavers
In New Jersey.
James F. Dougherty, of New Boston. ILL.,,
shot his sweetheart, Bertha Benedict, aged
l8, through temple and left brest, killing
her instantly, then he sent a bullet through
his own head, causing instant death. The
DO lies were discovered lying in the snow
yesterday morning, and were removed to
the home of friends. Both victims to le
awful deed were highly respected in the
community. Jealousy is supposed to have
been the cause.
Five masked robbers boarded the Pan
handle freight train near Sheridan station,
Just at the outskirts of Pittsburg, Pa, but
they were detected in the act of throwing
freight from the moving train, and In the
desperate fight which ensued Fireman Cur
ley was shot through the right thigh and a
brakeman knocked senseless with stone.
The train men gave up the fight to attend
TO the injured men, and the thieves escaped.
a. B. Burke, ship broker and owner, of
Philadelphia, has just received letter from
Montevideo, South America, stating that
cholera prevails to an alarming extent on
the upper River Platte, including all towns
above Montevideo, both in the Uruguay and
Ehe Argentine Republic. Hundreds of per-
sons are said to be dying daily. Many YES
cells are lying at anchor off Buenos Ayres
with full csrgoes, and they are not allowed
cave port.
An imbroglio similar to the Cutting case
has arisen in Ell Paso, Texas, and Paso del
dent of Pasoi del Norte, and owner of the
Bancho Mirero in Chihuahua at the city of
Chihuahua and president of the Interna-
@i0nal Street Railroad company, which con.
} neots Pase del Norte and Ell Paso. He felt
) aggrieved at some severe structures made
against his financial transactions by the
: O6serpador Frontier, Mexican paper pub
hshed at Paso del Norte, but printed in the
Job printing establish nent of the Ell Paso
Times on the American side of the river.
Oohoa considered the publication libelous
md made up his mind to have the author of
the article arrested. Ochoa concluded to
seek redress in the American court, and
accordingly had Pedro Garcia, acting man
1ger of the Obseruador, indicted for criminal
libel by the grand jury of the Ell Paso dis
tuct court. Garcia was arrested by the
sheriff of Ell Paso county as soon as the in
dictment against him was returned into
: court. His bail was fixed at $500, and he
was released. Garcia says he is only en-
plOyed as manager, and, according to the
Mexican law, is not responsible for the ut
esrances of the paper. He is subject'of
Spain, and no doubt the case when it comes
TO trisl will be transferred to the federal
courts. As it stands at present, it is Curl
0us intern ational complication.
A perfect reign of terror exists in the town
fof Uatula, eighty miles south of San Antonio,
Texas, the county seat of La Sale county,
as the result of the feuds existing in the
community. County Commissioner Hill
aAu duOtucI Ludu udVO OCoa ouOt uOWA oAu
killed in cold bold within the past month,
-and the slayers of both, although perfectly
we'll known, have not been arressed. Half
q dozen vigilance committees are organized
TO hunt down the assassins, but they seem
to make no Roadway, though it is under
stood the murderers never left La Sale
county. The town if practically under mar
siaI3ax. and business is almost entirely sus
yended. In fact, so great is the feeling of
Husecurity that many are deserving the vii
aage for fear of losing their lives. Captain
s. NTH has company OF state rangers who
uatrol the streets night and day to prevent
40 outbEeak of hostilities between the two
factiuns into which the community is di-
yided.
AT the legislative caucus in Dover, Del,
George Gray was reoominated for United
States senator by reclamation. He will be